By David Crystal

New from Cambridge University Press!

By Peter Mark Roget

This book "supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged … according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests."

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This book addresses the nature of the interface between conceptual and linguistic structure. One of the important challenges facing us is to find a substantive theory of the relation between meanings as linguistic entities and real world entities. This book attempts to provide such a theoretical framework.